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Bill	Clinical laboratories: cytotechnologists.	Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel, including cytotechnologists, by the State Department of Public Health, subject to certain exceptions. Under existing law, only a licensed cytotechnologist may perform examinations of cytological slides.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 599	California AB 599 (20152016)	bill	Clinical laboratories: cytotechnologists.	enacted	Bonilla	7	26	7	2015-02-24	2015-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/3d1d805a-02e2-4ad2-8eb7-99a50abe2502	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB599	ff0db9d1c6ef0ed7df54c051718ad5e8974239e3b4edf3de8412751e01b23feb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 599 (20152016) — Clinical laboratories: cytotechnologists.

Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel, including cytotechnologists, by the State Department of Public Health, subject to certain exceptions. Under existing law, only a licensed cytotechnologist may perform examinations of cytological slides.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/24/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/28/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/21/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB599 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 599 BONILLA Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 599 BONILLA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB599 Bonilla By Hill — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonilla — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2015-02-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2015-03-09 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1223.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-14 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-22 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2015-07-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2333.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-02 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2795.)
• 2015-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2809.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 300, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3d1d805a-02e2-4ad2-8eb7-99a50abe2502. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).